@jayseeay: ""The Iraqi people are now free. And they do not have to worry about
the secret police coming after them in the middle of the night, and
they don't have to worry about their husbands and brothers being taken
off and shot, or their wives being taken to rape rooms. Those days are
over."�Paul Bremer, Administrator, [Iraq] Coalition Provisional
Authority, Sept. 2, 2003
"Iraq is free of rape rooms and torture chambers."�President Bush,
remarks to 2003 Republican National Committee Presidential Gala, Oct.
8, 2003
One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and
torture rooms and rape rooms."�Bush, press availability in Monterrey,
Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004
US military confirms existence of horrific pictures and video
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
09 May 2004
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The Bush administration was bracing itself last night for the release
of new pictures and video footage from Abu Ghraib which show US
soldiers having sex with an Iraqi woman prisoner, troops almost
beating a prisoner to death, and the rape of young boys by Iraqi
guards at the jail.
Senior officials have warned that the new images and details of the
abuse and torture at the prison west of Baghdad will be even more
shocking than those already released. They will undoubtedly place even
more pressure on President George Bush and his beleaguered Defence
Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, as they desperately try to limit the
political damage from the growing scandal.
NBC News has quoted military officials as saying that the new
photographsalso show US soldiers "acting inappropriately with a dead
body". This may refer to a picture, which The Washington Post
described but did not publish, of Sabrina Harman, one of seven
reservists charged with abuses, posing with thumbs up next to a
decaying corpse.
NBC also reported that the rape of young boys by Iraqi guards,
apparently in a special section of the prison, had been filmed by US
soldiers
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Julie"
    @nobody: "<quote>
How about at April 30, 2004; 11:53 AM EDT:  "There are no longer torture 
chambers or rape rooms or mass graves in Iraq."
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    @jayseeay: "<quote>
stevenmontgomery@example.net. It's merely showing the hypocrisy and lies of the US
administration.
It's uncomfortable, isn't it? I suggest you re-orient yourself - you
need to come to terms with the fact that the US has imprisoned and
abused many innocent people, and has been condemned by Amnesty
International. 
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<url>
" ...The accounts [of abuse] suggest that the behaviour was fostered
by the well-publicised tough line of the Bush team, which paid little
heed to international norms governing the treatment of prisoners, in
its determination to do "everything it takes" to prevail in the "war
on terror".
The scandal was "deeper and wider than I think most in this
administration understand," Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said,
claiming that some 30 Pentagon investigations were under way into
prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan."
</Quote>
Julie"
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